They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
- Ann Aguirre
We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.
- Clive Barker
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
- E M Forster
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
- Omar N Bradley
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?"
"Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego."
"You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
- Orson Scott Card
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
- Ron Chernow
Can I tell you something?" He tilted his head, moving in closer still, so close that she could feel his breath against her cheek. "Do you want to know what my grandma used to say about kisses on the forehead?"
He pressed his lips to her brow, holding the silk soft kiss for a long moment while Isobel stood in place, unable to bring herself to shove him away.
"She told me it's the kind of kiss we save for the dead.
- Kelly Creagh
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
- Davy Crockett
Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.
- Jenny Downham
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
- Xenophon
Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.
- Sandy Fussell
At least I have the flowers of myself,
and my thoughts, no god
can take that;
I have the fervour of myself for a presence
and my own spirit for light;
and my spirit with its loss
knows this;
though small against the black,
small against the formless rocks,
hell must break before I am lost;
before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.
- H D
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
- Langston Hughes
Think, Dagny, what it is to sit by the window in the eventide and hear the kelpie wailing in the boat-house; to sit waiting and listening for the dead men's ride to Valhal; for their way lies past us here in the north. They are the brave men that fell in fight, the strong women that did not drag out their lives tamely, like thee and me; they sweep through the storm-night on their black horses, with jangling bells! Ha, Dagny! think of riding the last ride on so rare a steed!
- Henrik Ibsen
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
- Washington Irving
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
- Mother Jones
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
- Robert Jordan
Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
- Robert Jordan
The living have love for the dead, but the dead have no love for the living. I ought to know, because I'd like the steakmedium raremashed potatoes, green beans, and a salad on the side. And some rolls and butter would be great, thanks. Separate checks, by the way.
- Jarod Kintz
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop." TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://www.amazon.com/SPEAK-DEAD-Jake...
- Paul Levine
I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. "To Speak for the Dead" (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t
- Paul Levine
Time does not tick on for the dead. After we die, we cannot keep it. It is the master of the living. For the dead, for the vampire, time is a hornets' nest. Dangerous, best to be avoided always humming in your ear.
- Rebecca Maizel
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.
- Stephenie Meyer
We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.
- John O Donohue
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
- Simone Weil
Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
but she's still sleeping
this ICU is
hotel for the dead
- Maggie Stiefvater
For the dead there are no more toils.
- Sophocles
I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon.
- Sophocles
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast)
- Bram Stoker
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
- Elie Wiesel
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
- Elie Wiesel
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
- Elie Wiesel
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
- Elie Wiesel
Life is but a dream for the dead.
- Gerard Way
- Ann Aguirre
We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.
- Clive Barker
For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.
- E M Forster
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
- Omar N Bradley
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?"
"Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego."
"You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
- Orson Scott Card
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
- Ron Chernow
Can I tell you something?" He tilted his head, moving in closer still, so close that she could feel his breath against her cheek. "Do you want to know what my grandma used to say about kisses on the forehead?"
He pressed his lips to her brow, holding the silk soft kiss for a long moment while Isobel stood in place, unable to bring herself to shove him away.
"She told me it's the kind of kiss we save for the dead.
- Kelly Creagh
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
- Davy Crockett
Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.
- Jenny Downham
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
- Xenophon
Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.
- Sandy Fussell
At least I have the flowers of myself,
and my thoughts, no god
can take that;
I have the fervour of myself for a presence
and my own spirit for light;
and my spirit with its loss
knows this;
though small against the black,
small against the formless rocks,
hell must break before I am lost;
before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.
- H D
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
- Langston Hughes
Think, Dagny, what it is to sit by the window in the eventide and hear the kelpie wailing in the boat-house; to sit waiting and listening for the dead men's ride to Valhal; for their way lies past us here in the north. They are the brave men that fell in fight, the strong women that did not drag out their lives tamely, like thee and me; they sweep through the storm-night on their black horses, with jangling bells! Ha, Dagny! think of riding the last ride on so rare a steed!
- Henrik Ibsen
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
- Washington Irving
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
- Mother Jones
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
- Robert Jordan
Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
- Robert Jordan
The living have love for the dead, but the dead have no love for the living. I ought to know, because I'd like the steakmedium raremashed potatoes, green beans, and a salad on the side. And some rolls and butter would be great, thanks. Separate checks, by the way.
- Jarod Kintz
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop." TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://www.amazon.com/SPEAK-DEAD-Jake...
- Paul Levine
I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. "To Speak for the Dead" (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t
- Paul Levine
Time does not tick on for the dead. After we die, we cannot keep it. It is the master of the living. For the dead, for the vampire, time is a hornets' nest. Dangerous, best to be avoided always humming in your ear.
- Rebecca Maizel
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.
- Stephenie Meyer
We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.
- John O Donohue
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
- Simone Weil
Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
but she's still sleeping
this ICU is
hotel for the dead
- Maggie Stiefvater
For the dead there are no more toils.
- Sophocles
I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon.
- Sophocles
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast)
- Bram Stoker
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
- Elie Wiesel
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
- Elie Wiesel
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
- Elie Wiesel
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
- Elie Wiesel
Life is but a dream for the dead.
- Gerard Way
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